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Whittington Health NHS Trust

About

Whittington Health NHS Trust aims to help local people live longer and healthier lives by providing safe, personal, coordinated care for the community we serve.

We provide hospital and community care services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. As one organisation providing both hospital and community services, we are known as an ‘integrated care organisation’.

We have an income of £350 million and over 4,400 staff delivering care across north London.

Our priority is to provide the right care, at the right time and in the right place for our patients. We provide a large range of services from the hospital, including accident and emergency (A&E), maternity, diagnostic, therapy and elderly care. We also run services from 30 community locations in Islington and Haringey. Over the past year we have reviewed and developed services to make them stronger and better support the needs of patients.

As an integrated care organisation we bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience. Key to our approach is partnering with patients, carers, GPs, social care, mental health and other healthcare providers.

Our organisation has a highly-regarded educational role. We teach undergraduate medical students (as part of UCL Medical School) and nurses and therapists throughout the year, alongside providing a range of educational packages for postgraduate doctors and other healthcare professional.

Contact

Address: Whittington Health NHS Trust; Magdala Avenue; London; N19 5NF

Find out more

Jobs Website

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Ref: 220-WHT-3993 Vacancy ID: 8009405

Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) Supervisor

Accepting applications until: 24-Jun-2026 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 24-Jun-2026 23:59

Location

Gwefan: Northern Health Centre
Cyfeiriad: 580 Holloway Road
Tref: Islington
Cod post: N7 6LB
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 18 months (Based on successful trainee application and funding)
Oriau: Part time - 15 hours per week (Monday & Wednesday essential)

Salary

Cyflog: £58,133 - £65,261 per annum
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (Band 7)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: Children's Wellbeing

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3^rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.

We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

Whittington Health NHS Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

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Clinical Supervision

To oversee the formulation and treatment and management plans for parents, children and young people being treated by the CWPs using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service; individual and group.
Working in Partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
To support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
To operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
Accept referrals within agreed national and local protocols.
Undertakes accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
Adhere to the service referral protocols. Under supervision signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary.
Through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope, or more severe ensuring adherence to other relevant elements of service delivery.
Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.
Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimise waiting times.
Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision-making. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.
Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
Work in collaboration with children, young people and communities to enhance and widen access to support health promotion.
To provide joint specialist mental health assessments and treatments to parents, children and young people with the CWP supervisees. Following attendance at the CWP courses the interventions will be based on the low intensity evidence based interventions for the treatment of low mood, anxiety, and behaviour problems.
To provide clinical supervision of the intervention work of the CWPs when they are working independently
To judge when the CWPs are able to work independently with specific clients and interventions
To support the CWPs to provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
To support the CWPs to liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competences and practice.
Co-develop a supervision contract with CWPs
To induct CWPs into appropriately using supervision, including looking at data and videos in supervision

Service development Management and policy.

To assist in managing and screening referrals into the CWP service.
To regulate and manage the case load of the trainee CWPs
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To assist the service manager by undertaking delegated routine team-based functions, as required, such as: chairing meetings, overseeing
evaluations/audits, etc.
To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need
addressing.
To be involved, as appropriate, in the recruitment, short listing and interviewing of band 4/5 CWPs
To attend, as required, a range of interagency meetings to represent the service, in a delegated role, offering guidance, where appropriate,
ensuring that issues relating to the service are noted and brought to the attention of the service manager.
To assist, in the integration and development of user participation, outcomes measures, and evidence-based treatment approaches in line with the wider CAMHS strategy for service improvement.
To assist in the development of the CWP service, such as joint working with other agencies and developing new interventions within the service.
To ensure that CWPs are covered by the clinical governance arrangements for the service. This would include reviewing policies relating to risk management and sole working and ensuring that these policies are adhered to by the CWP workforce.

Service evaluation and research

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team
members.
To assist in CWP project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop and evaluate service provision.
Work with service managers to ensure outcomes data is collected, used clinically and submitted to the CYP IAPT collaborative

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
Participate in required training and supervision.
Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

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Appropriate qualification to be an existing CAMHS clinician with CBT informed experience.
Two years CWP/EHMP supervision experience OR Undertaking/completion of the CWP/EMHP Supervisor PG Certificate or Senior Wellbeing Practitioner PG Cert/Diploma from a nationally commissioned training provider

Skills & Abilities

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High level knowledge of the theory and practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and psychological interventions. Actively practicing and using CBT-informed approaches.
Skills in the assessment of mental health for children young people and their parents.
High level skills in working with professional networks and the ability to advocate for and advance the mental health needs of parents and their children.
Ability to chair team meetings, undertake delegated management tasks and support the CAMHS Service Manager in general team tasks/development as required.
Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
Ability to manage/supervise clinical staff on band 4/5
Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Effectively manage a clinical caseload, complete outcomes measures routinely, update clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements.
Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings.
Ability to identify areas for, and contribute, to Service Development
Ability to work autonomously.
Competent in the delivery of core CWP interventions
Competent overseeing caseloads, and maintaining high fidelity to the supervisee’s role while ensuring efficiency and safety in clinical practice.

Knowledge & Experience

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An enthusiasm for using Routine Outcome Measures.
An enthusiasm for brief interventions
Experience of working with children, young people and parents presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour.
Formulation and treatment of children and young people with mental health difficulties.
Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and co-working assessments and treatment.
Experience of providing a culturally sensitive service.
Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service.
Contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings and co- working assessments and treatment within clinic-based settings.
Experience in managing child protection concerns
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions.
Skills in the assessment of mental health factors for young children and their parents
Knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of parent/child mental health for each service area.
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection.Desirable criteria
2 yrs of post qualifying clinical experience
Knowledge and experience in the provision of low intensity CBT interventions with children/young people with low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems

Meini prawf dymunol

Experience of supervising CAMHS clinicians.
Experience of undertaking delegated leadership tasks and managing staff effectively.
Ability to develop, manage and lead on outcomes data and data reporting for the service.

Personal Qualites

Meini prawf hanfodol

Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings.
Confident speaking with a range of audiences in different setting.
Motivated and innovative